Narrow Energy Bills Introduced in House and Senate

Goals: Make Deep Ocean Drilling Safer;
Improve Energy Efficiency

House and Senate Democrats on Tuesday introduced separate energy proposals that are principally concerned with limiting the hazards of deep ocean energy exploration and production, and also contain modest additional measures to strengthen energy efficiency programs and expand the use of natural gas as a fuel in heavy [...]

Call Your Senator for the Climate’s Sake

The environmental group 1Sky is asking supporters of strong climate legislation to make next Tuesday, January 12th, a national call-in day for the climate.
Callers are encouraged to ask their Senators to take action on a climate bill and also to vote “no” on limiting the EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases under the proposed Murkowski [...]

Bill Seeks to Spur Renewable Energy Development on Private Land

On Thursday, Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced the Renewable Incentive Act (S 2899) to expand a grant program that was the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 aimed at keeping the renewable energy section strong through the economic crisis.
That program, set to expire in 2010, helps renewable energy developers [...]

“Immediate Operational Effect”: Climate Action Hotline, Dec. 1

December 2, 2009

The countdown to Copenhagen began in earnest over the last week as the U.S., China, and India announced new emissions targets and other actions in a coordinated campaign to heighten expectations about reaching a global climate agreement that, in President Obama’s words, have “immediate operational effect.”
Meanwhile, opponents to climate action coordinated the release [...]